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Excerpt from The Friend, Vol. 2 of 2: A Series of Essays to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, With Literary Amusements Interspersed
Which had been sanctified in the minds of mv hearers by the authority of some reigning great name; even though in addition to my own reasons, I had all the greatest names from the Reformation to the Revolution on my side. I could not, therefore, summon courage, without some previous pioneering, to declare publicly, that the principles of morality taught in the present work will he in direct opposition to the system of the late Dr. Paley. This confession I should have deferred to a future time, if my opinions on the grounds of inter national morality had not been contradictory to a funda mental point in Paley'a system of moral and political philosophy. I mean that chapter which treats of general consequences, as the chief and host criterion of the right or Tong of particular actions.' Now this doctrine I conceive to be neither tenable in l'easnn nor safe in practice: and the following are the grounds of my Opinion.
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